Hardening and Softening of Borders in Europe

Description

LIMES is a network of 13 PhD candidates from different disciplinary backgrounds, hosted at Maastricht University (NL). Over the past four years, the researchers have been looking into the softening and hardening of borders in Europe. The Final Conference of the network will present their research and will reach out to interested academic, political, and cultural audiences. We invite participants to engage with the findings of LIMES and to explore linkages with their own experiences. In doing so, we go beyond traditional conference formats. The conference will be a playful, creative and interactive exercise.
Discussions during the day are organized around four panels that approach the topic from different angles:
- Panel A focuses on crossing borders in labour markets, with a view to transnational mobility of workers, univer-sity-to-work transition, and workplace loneliness
- Panel B looks at how cultural and linguistic borders can
be researched, with focus on young adults and children, and borders between participants and ethnographers
- Panel C discusses how knowledge, cultures, traditions and artistic practices travel and may both strengthen borders and challenge societies and businesses to adapt.
- Panel D focuses on the EU’s normative borders and how the Union’s ‘crisis of values’ plays out both at the EU’s external borders and internally. The ‘Fortress Europe’ idea and rule of law conflicts are key.

Period	28 Oct 2023
Event title	Hardening and Softening of Borders in Europe
Event type	Other
Location	Maastricht , NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National